Our churches should never forget that a true preacher is a man of God speaking to man. He is a man of heaven giving God's witness on earth. He can decode the message he receives from heaven and deliver it in the language of earth. God does want to speak to the human heart. - (A.W. Tozer. The Tozer Pulpit Series, Book 1. Chapter 21, 'There is more to the ministry than being able to talk'

Introduction

When it comes down to it, we have to ask "Why was it necessary for this event to even take place?" - what caused Ezekiel to have to go through this part of his life? What was it that lead up to the situations that caused, first the Israeli people to be in captivity, then secondly, what caused there to be a valley of dry bones?

No preacher was ever sent to a more unlikely congregation then old Ezekiel. Before Ezekiel was a congregation of bones. You know, some of us have churches with some sinew and flesh still around, but some of us have a church full of bones.

God loves to use preachers, which we must not forget, but the trouble with Gods people is that they tend to leave everything to the preacher - they like to say "That's the preachers job; let him get on with it!" Well, no Sir, every believer is a servant of Jesus Christ. Each of us have to get on our feet and do some work!

It was this laziness that caused the people of God to be captured. They took their eyes off their God and put it onto themselves and false gods.

Thankfully when God really does a work in a man's heart he becomes a soldier of Christ; he becomes a follower of the Lamb. These kind of men do not say to themselves "leave it for others", rather they take the fight to the streets and actively engaged in intercession and redemption!

Ezekiel was one preacher - and was given a valley full of bones. Think of it as a very big congregation that have no desire to do anything. A cold church.

Oh that God would give us a vision for the multitudes, not just a trickle of the blessing. How many of us have lost - or never had - a vision for the masses? How many of us look to God for the small miracles rather then the impossible?

We must capture a vision for the multitudes, for that is the impossible!

The hand of the Lord

Charles Wesley use to say, "O that the world might taste and see the riches of his grace! The arms of love that compass me would all the world embrace"

Oh that the world might see the valley of the lost - that there are souls that need Jesus Christ. The world is full of deadness and the church is full of dryness. What we need is a wilderness of flowers and flowing water! But the church has no vision - we have forgotten that God can do the impossible.

How much power do you think God could exercise today if we but looked to Him to move? God does not get weaker and weaker - the world may be headed for destruction, but God has a plan and a purpose, and that includes His power to perform the impossible. It is we who have gotten weaker and weaker. It is we who have forgotten that God can do the impossible. But that does not mean that God has lost the ability to do the impossible - it simply means we have lost the challenge.

You see God challenged the prophet Ezekiel - and we need God to speak to us, to challenge every one of us, and say to each of us, "Can these dry bones live?"

Can God save your family? Can He save your neighbors? Can He reach across to the other side of the world and save a family in need? Of course He can!

God challenged Ezekiel to preach to a bunch of bones. And preach is exactly what Ezekiel did! It is the preaching of God's word and the power of the Holy Ghost that will change the world. It is when each man and women finds within themselves the life of Christ - and His passion - that God will begin to move. It is when each of us look not to the valley of dry bones, but when we look to the well spring of Life - the Giver of Life - that we can find assurance within ourselves to know that God can do the impossible!


Life Renewed (aka: revival)

You know, when the prophet Ezekiel preached, something happened!

When revival comes there will be a noise from heaven! There will be a stirring in the soul of man - that shouts of God's power moving in the lives of men. We need to be shaken to the very depths of our souls. God needs to blast into the church!

Revival comes when God's people are only interested in the Glory of the Lord - that is when revival comes. If you're praying for revival to fill your church, God will never send you revival. If you're praying for revival so people will people say "you're a revival preacher", God will never send it. But when you are only interested in the Glory of the Lord, and cry out to God to do something, then He will send you revival! He'll do it for the Honor and the Glory of His Great Name.

There is a unity when God starts breathing. Ezekiel started off with bones and then he had a bunch of corpses - but there was no life in them. There is only one thing that can make a corpse live - and that is the breath of God. We need to say "Come in all Your mighty power, as a mighty rushing wind, and breathe again, Oh God!" As Ezekiel prophesied, the breath moved forth and life entered into the corpses! Halleluiah and amen!


The Cost Of Separation From God's Plan

History shows us how clearly important it is to not divide ourselves from the Lord. Less than a century after King David's reign, Israel divided into two nations: Israel and Judah. This resulted in drastic and devastating consequences for the people of God. The Assyrians conquered Judah in 720 BC, and then Israel fell to the Babylonians in 587 BC. From that point on, and for the next two millennia, their land was in the possession of various different empires: Babylonian, Persian, Greek Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine, Islamic and Christian Crusaders, Ottoman, and British.

This clearly shows us that when God unites us together, any divination from His plan can have serious consequences.

What has happened within our churches is we have separated ourselves from one another. We have caused this great divide to exist between those who have no other real desire then to sit on a pew week after week, and those who have decided to not even sit in the pews anymore. We have caused the once live bones to become like flesh and sinew - unattached and no longer alive and performing their duties.


History Shows Us A Valuable Spiritual Lesson

The Assyrians were responsible for the lost ten tribes of Israel. By invading the land of Palestine, the army of Nineveh swept ten of the twelve tribes of Israel out of the pages of history, plunging them into captivity so deep that only the power of Jesus could rescue them from permanent anonymity.

How common this has happened to the Child of God even today! We see the Children of God falling likes dead ticks as we allow ourselves to be separated from the Love of God because of our inability to stay focused on God's plan for our lives. We have hundreds of thousands of people who call themselves "the unchurched Christians". People who have left the church yet claim to have not let the faith. As many of the put it, "we have simply gotten tired of a dead and dry church that is doing nothing to move forward the kingdom of God... so why should we even go?"

I, for one, cannot refute nor find any cause to condemn nor criticize those who have become unchurched Christians. I see it happen nearly every day of my life. As the church becomes more and more focused not on the impossibly acts that God desires to perform, but rather on the tradition of trying to keep everybody happy, we simply have to understand that more and more people - good people, Godly people - are going to keep leaving the church and begin to find themselves in obscurity like the ten tribes of Israel that the Assyrians attempted to wipe off the face of the earth.

Over 80% of Jacob's descendants disappeared in one swoop by followers of a false god. How many people do you know - your friends, your neighbors, and your own family - that have been swallowed up? What have you done to fight back? What did you do to keep it from happening? Did you forget that God says some things must be fought for? Have we forgotten that there is a constant battle between man and their minds and faith?

But distress not - for with God nothing is impossible! I know I have been saying this statement throughout this journey entry, but it is because we must get this engrained into our minds once again!

One hundred years after the northern tribes fell to the Assyrians, Nebuchadnezzar led the forces of Babylon into Jerusalem and carried away the last two tribes (Judah and Benjamine), transporting them to the banks of the Euphrates where they were held in bondage for seventy years.


Staying Prepared For The Lord To Carry Us Away

Ezekiel Chapter 37 verse 1 states that God carried out Ezekiel in the Spirit of the Lord and set him down in a valley of dry bones. Two verses later we find him saying to the Lord "O LORD GOD, thou knowest."

I would tend to think that if Ezekiel had not been prepared he would have probably not had the faith and assurance that God actually could bring life to a valley full of dry bones! But we know Ezekiel was prepared by his very act of obedience to God. How many of you know that often times when we do not obey God's plan and direction for our live it is because we were not ready for God to tell us to move in a different direction! How many times have you found God saying to you it's time to do something and you find yourself saying "I'm not ready for that Lord!" Perhaps you pull out some excuse like Moses did when he told God "Hey, I'm an old man and am not an good speaker... go find someone else to go before the pharaoh and demand the child of God be set loose!" Perhaps it's not even something that big and drastic. Perhaps it is something as small as spending a few more minutes in prayer, in fellowship with Him. Yet you find yourself unprepared for God to want to deepen your relationship with Him.

You see, we must always stay vigilant for the thief in the night. As we can see all around us now, under the influence of Lucifer, Christianity is beginning to fail. The mortal wound inflicted by Christ on paganism has begun to heal. World government, and even the church itself, have begun to abandon Jesus. We must stay focused on Christ and God's power. History has proven what happens when men do not do so.

There are impossible miracles that God desires to perform on earth - in my life and in your life, in the life of your family, friends, neighbors, and those around the world! He is but waiting for a group of people to stand forward and await the call. To find and have assurance that He - the Creator of all - truly can do all that we have been praying and crying out for Him to do.

Do not loose faith. Do not give up. Remember the twelve virgins who were preparing for a wedding and only those who were prepared and awaiting Him were able to share and partake of the wedding feast!

Thank you for reading.
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Introduction:

Greetings and welcome to the first part of the Dry Bones Live Journey.

Before I get started I thought I would point you to my brief questions and answers page that will detail a little bit about this journey, my background and other details that do not necessarily belong inside of a blog. I will keep it updated as people ask me questions and/or I feel like sharing more.


Journey Overview:

1. About Ezekiel
   
2. Word Explanations
   
3. Visions Guideline
   
4. About the Valley
   
5. Personal Application
   

About Ezekiel:

The book of Ezekiel records part of the life of the priest-prophet, Ezekiel, who lived in Babylon during the Jewish exile. Ezekiel's message was almost always delivered to his fellow Jewish captives and to the Jews still present in the then Palestine region. His messages often detailed good news - and often hard times to come - the Israeli exiles that after being chastened by God would be restored, and God's kingdom would rise forth from God's power revealed. Much of Ezekiel's visions and prophetic acts were fulfilled in 537 B.C. and many say that the complete fulfillment of his prophecies is yet to take place - and will result in a future kingdom that will last forever. A general theme of Ezekiel is that God's people will never again be cast out, if they would but follow Him.

Ezekiel which means "God Strengths" lived from 593 B.C. to 573 B.C. and is identified as "Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi". The Buzi was a family name which may have been handed down from Buz, son of Nahor, Abraham's older brother "Genesis. 22:21". Jeremiah 25:23 refers to the land of Buz which is located in Northern Hejaz, for whatever that is worth knowing.

We know that Ezekiel was happily married until the death of his wife in 587 B.C. "Ezekiel 24:18" and he was most likely a member of the Zadokite priesthood "which I plan to detail in a future Dry Bones Live Journey" and achieved full hegemony during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. The Zadokite priesthood is claimed to have its origin in either "a" Aaron at the time of the exodus, or "b" based on Jewish mythology, Solomon. I have not found creditable support for which of these is correct but welcome feedback from anybody who can provide definitive proof.

Interestingly, the Zadokite's rejected temple sacrifice, and offered instead baptism in water as the way to ritual purity and closeness to God. For them, the divine could be experienced first-hand, without temple ritual or priestly intermediaries. This might be something I compare to John The Baptist and what he believed in a future Dry Bones Live Journey - but no promises on this one. The Zadokites are referenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls and some theorizes that Third Isaiah "if you do not know what this is, study the history of the Book of Isaiah to find out" was written by a Levitical priests who return to the Zadokite priesthood after the exiles again assumed power.

Ezekiel often applies to himself the title "Son of Man" throughout the Book of Ezekiel "occurs over 90-times" and is the title by which Christ Jesus was to refer to Himself. This is where many people find the proof to call Ezekiel an 'Old Testament Example of Christ', which I tend to think is an acceptable practice, but I can find much more to use as proof then just this title being used by Christ, to proof such a statement.

Ezekiel uses the reference "Spirit of God" and "Spirit of the Lord" throughout this book, making three distinct references: 11:5, 37:1, and 36:26 - and through this we can conclude that Ezekiel clearly anticipated a New Covenant "new birth" experience, which would be fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, by the Spirit, as recorded within Acts 2:1-4, some 500 years after Ezekiel departed the earth.

In Ezekiel 37:11-14 the doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body is implied, and is further supported by 1 Samuel 2:6, Job 19:25-27, Psalm 16:10-11, and Daniel 12:1-13. This issue, and whether I agree with it or not, is something I will try to write about in a Dry Bones Live Journey, but again, no promise on this one. It seems to be a bit off-target of what I feel this purpose of this Journey is all about. Spiritually I believe that we can find "Restoration in Christ", if we have found ourselves - such as I have and the cause of this Journey - to have lost our First Love in the chaos of selfish life. Over the last many years I have seen many more pastors destroy their families because of their churches, then I have seen pastors destroy their churches because of their families. Often what happens to pastors is they lose their faith and zeal in their First Love, and then with it they destroy their family, and eventually their ministry. Thankfully I have never destroyed my family because of my ministry, but I have come close in years past.

Contextually, Ezekiel Chapter 37 is designed to be a message of hope to a despondent people whose holy dwelling place was ravaged and who's people where exiled, and who had lost nearly all their faith in their Creator.

Word Explanations:

There are many words within Ezekiel Chapter 37 that have both actual and symbolic meaning and application. As you may discover through the months ahead as I partake of this Journey I am taking, I am (and always have been) a Biblical Literalist. By this I mean: "What the Holy Text says is what the Holy Text Means." If the Holy Text says the world was created in 6 days, well by-gosh, it must have been! If the Holy Text says Christ refused to take vinegar while on the cross, this does not mean anything more then He was trying to keep His vow as a Nazarite priest, which forbids one to have vinegar. Such things are no great mystery. For many years I wondered why Christ did not take the vinegar when it was offered to him, and I suspect most pastors out there do not have the slightest clue why. But careful and literal observation of the Holy Text clearly tells us why Christ refused it. As He said to His disciples when asking about why He spoke in parables, some things can only been seen by those who open their eyes. One of my personal goals in this Journey will be to help me open my own eyes to parts of the Holy Text I have never seen before. There is a wealth of knowledge within the pages of the Holy Text, simply waiting there for it to be revealed to those with eyes to see. I, for one, like to see what the Holy Text says, in its more pure and literal context - and while I do not have a problem using stories or symbolism, I will also go back to the literal text of what the Holy Text says when push comes to shove... when rubber meets the road... and when what I believe and what the Holy Text says is different, I'm always the wrong one.

All that said, here are a few words that I feel are going to have both literal and symbolic relevance to this Journey. Some of these terms I am going to spend an entire future Journey Entry on, just explaining what I feel they might mean. Others I may not address any time other then here.


Bones: Bones are the most obvious of the symbolic figure within Ezekiel 37.

They could represent the Jewish exiles, who according to verse 11, have given up all hope of Israel because they have been in captivity in Babylon 10+ years.

Bones can also represent the ministry we are in. When our ministry is alive and moving forward we could say that our bones are full of life, while as when our ministry is no longer fruitful we can easily see how it is a ministry of dry bones.

Bones can also represent Israel, or our own country. The land we live within. When properly maintained bones last for the life of our existence "and beyond". Likewise, when the land we live within keeps it's focus on the Creator it will be a land protected by it's people "the flesh" and strong.

Proverbs 17:22 states "NKJV", "A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones." From this we can gather that dry bones are the opposite of having a good and healthy heart. This one speaks true to me. When I first came to the realization that my faith was not as good as it should be, that I truly had lost sight of my First Love, it was because I realized my spirit had become dry. I no longer found joy in what others were finding joy in. I no longer found myself bowing my knees in prayer and petition. As Proverbs says, my spirit had become like dry bones.


Very Many: This could represent the total number of exiles, virtually all that was left of the Israel nation after years of being exiled. This can also represent the vast numbers of ministers who have lost their faith and zeal in their walk with the Lord. As is all too evident there are vast numbers of God's Children who have lost their faithful zeal in their Creator. It is my hope that along the Journey this that we will discover many of the facts of what leads ministers into a state of loosing their fire, passion, zeal, and calling from the Lord.

Very Dry: This could represent the condition of Israel's lost hope and the miracle required to bring the people back to life. Like the Atacama Desert (the driest place on the planet) the dryness easily kills all living creatures - yet the same dryness helps preserve and mummify those who have died at such incredible levels that even mummies thousands of years old are in perfect condition. Amazingly, in the heart of this desert is the village of San Pedro. At an altitude of 7,000 feet and surrounded by a green oasis, years ago it was considered the center of a Paleolithic civilization that built impressive rock fortresses on steep mountains encircling the valley. It is said that Chiu Chiu has a village known for boasting of one of the oldest (if not the first) church built by the Spanish Conquistadores! There in the midst of the driest place on earth is a vibrant and historical evidence of the fact that no matter how dry a place is, life still abounds!

Breath: The Hebrew ruah can be translated as "breath," "wind," or "spirit". I will address this term in much greater detail in a future Dry Bones Live Journey. This word is key in so many aspects that it just has to be looked at in depth! The very breath that breathed life into the universe and beyond, into the very essence of adam and all mankind since, is the same breath the brought forth life into the valley of dry bones, into the life of Jesus' close friend, Lazarus, and perhaps was the same breath that brought back life into Christ Himself three days aft His life was taken - and the same breath that can bring forth new life into the dryness of ministers who have lost their way while walking through a valley of death.


About The Valley:

I have spent a great deal of time in research with open maps, a great deal of exo-biblical text, and as many translations of Holy Text as I own in an attempt to locate the possible physical location that Ezekiel's vision may have taken place. While I realize it was simply a "vision", from my own personal experience with visions I have found that God often uses real places to reveal to us the truths He desires us to gather from the experiences of the vision itself. One could research nearly all of the visions accounted in the Holy Text and - with a large amount of research - eventually find real and physical places for most of the locations experienced within those visions.

At this point I have no yet been able to locate an exact position within the vision, and as such I have no name for the valley yet. I have created a separate page in which I will be documenting my notes and "if ever" I locate an exact valley of Ezekiel's vision, I will make such documentation for this. And, of course, should someone out there have thoughts or knowledge on this I invite you to leave a comment within the Dry Bones Valley Name page! I will spend time researching your comments and bring them into perspective of my own research and maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to share with everyone what I feel the name of this visionary valley is!

Something I was wanting to share here-and-now, but have "just now" decided to wait to talk about is exactly how all those bones got into the valley in the first place! This is something we might actually be able to document and provide solid Biblical and exo-Biblical facts on. Due to the amount of documentation it will take to provide such evidence, I do not feel this first Journey Entry is the place to document all that. However, it is very important to understand where these dry bones came from - in a quest to discover how it is we as ministers often go from being zealous to being dry in our spirits. This is a vital, vital, part of understanding and hope we can really dig into this piece of the puzzle in a future Dry Bones Live Journey.

Personal Application:

Well, this is the section were the truth has to hit home. If all I was doing this for was academic purposes I wouldn't be doing this. In my early years of being a Christian I spent the vast majority of my time "as I suspect most of us do" learning doctrine and attending local religious debating groups, in a quest to "better understand". What I learned after realizing that most of that had little spiritual affect on me totally and radically changed my entire perspective on my Christian life and ministry. One of my first pastors always use to tell me "Don't worry about what others say until you understand what the Bible - and God - says about a topic." His wisdom and trust so speaks to me now, so years later, that I often think of him and the wisdom he taught me.

The large majority of ministers - even more so today when we have a Christian educational system that stresses more about church politics and education then they do the Bible and spiritual growth - I have encountered tend to realize that after the thrill of being a pastor is over, the rest is all about hard work. Human work and Spiritual Work - Not Doctrinal Work! While doctrine is at the root of our believes, I have found when pastors start preaching mostly doctrine it is because they have lost their passion and the connection with the Spirit that keeps them fresh and in the Word.

My father always use to say he went to the church he attended because the "preacher was real, because he emphasized the red text and the rest was just supportive text." By this my father meant that, for him, the most important part of the Bible and the Christian life was about how one puts into daily practice that which helps us define who we are in Christ.

For the last year one of the local ministers where I reside has been "trying" to engrain into his people that they are Children of God, that their identity is not found in this world - in what they do or do not do - but rather in being a Child of the Most High. I think this pastor is doing something because he himself realized that he had lost sight of who he was, and is, within the Kingdom of God. Yes, he may be a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; Yes, he may be a father and a good husband; Yes, he may even be a good citizen in his community, "yet none of that matters", he shared with me a few months ago, "if he is not first a Child of God."

What I hope to accomplish in this Journey is to find some way to find personal application of the vital and stark reality of Ezekiel chapter 37 - and get it engrained into my life! The pictures we find in this Chapter of Ezekiel are a panoramic view of the nation of Israel. Israel is unlike any other nation among that long roll call of world states, because it entered into a covenant arrangement with God Almighty, a covenant which incidentally carries the very reputation of God within it. My life, my family, my ministry, my entire existence is no different. I have entered into a covenant with God Almighty and it is 100% necessary for me to be ever present of this.

I will not sit here and tell anybody that my ministry has been perfect. It has had some awesome and amazing days, yet it has also had a few days I wish never happened. At no time during the months ahead as I take this Journey through Ezekiel 37 am I going to pretend that I've always done it right - for none of us have. Instead I plan on being totally open, and totally honest with those of you out there reading this! We cannot... let me say that again... we cannot... we cannot expect to be ministers of God if our own spirits are dry. For many years I walked the day-in-and-day-out of ministry without the spirit of life within my bones, without Him in my vision and ministry - and for many years my ministry suffered, and those under my ministry felt the affects of it.

When I left the ministry I did so because it was the right thing to do. Not because others felt I should leave, they didn't. Not because my ministry was not producing fruit, because it was. Rather I left the ministry because I knew inside I just could not continue to go on, to move forward, to go another day, without first getting right with God - without going back and finding the First Love I had, yet lost somewhere along the way of being a minister.

In Closing:

If any of this speaks truth to you, if any of this makes you feel like it makes me feel, if any of this makes you recall events in your own life, I invite you to join together with me in the months ahead. To take this journey with me through Ezekiel 37. Please, leave comments and share what is on your heart!

Thank you for reading.
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At some point in the life of nearly every Christian to ever walk this earth they find themselves feeling down-and-out... like they are totally alone in a valley with nothing but a bunch of dry and stale bones around and often times it feels as if they themselves - their faith - is just another stack of dry bones in a valley where so many others seem to be. Perhaps they have encountered a devastating blow to their family, or their walk with the Lord, or perhaps their ministry.

For those of us who have been through this valley, or are presently in this valley, I offer you a chance to walk through this valley with me. Perhaps at some time in the future we will have arrived, together, at the end of the valley of dry bones, at the foot of the mountain - the Cross - and have find once again, our First Love.

What many of us need is just a helping hand to help us reunited with our First Love, to find a safe and healing path back into a life of knowing who we are as a child of the Most Holy Savior, Jesus Christ, our First Love, and the Giver of new life to some wiry and dry bones! I have always been able to find that 'helping hand' from within the Holy Text of God.

The Journey Ahead:

In the months ahead, for however long it might take, I will be going back to the Word of God in search of that which brought to life (as Ezekiel spoke forth) the dry bones in the valley, as is accounted within in the Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 37. This chapter will be the foundation of all that takes place in the restoration period that is before me. I do not feel that now is the time nor the place to explain why this passage of Holy Text is to be the foundation, rather in the weeks and months before us I will try to bring out these facts - as I work through them in my own life.

At this point I cannot say what the format for the history of this journey is going to be - as I just do not know. This journey (and the reason it exists) is truly going to be a work-in-progress. A working out of ones soul, faith, redemption, restoration and rejoicing in who I am as a Child of God! At times I may become analytical, at other times I may become lost in context and simply share what is bothering me or what I am not able to grasp ahold of. Still other times I may venture away from Ezekiel 37 to chase down insights that have been revealed to me through the Holy Text and/or the Holy Spirit. Through it all, however, the goal will be to obtain a renewing of the heart, soul, and mind. To discover the power behind God's purpose for raising forth those dry bones in the valley. To seek out the same Power that rose those very bones back to life. In no other account in Holy Text do we see a mass raising of the dead. There is power in this chapter that can change the nations for Christ, that can bring back life to an individuals soul - power that is granted from upon high, to radically change the lives of countless souls.

Throughout the entire journey I invite you to ponder and question what is brought forth. To seek out your own insight to any revelation that is brought forth. There will be many instances of symbolism in my writing. As symbolism can be interpreted in numerous ways, it will be vital to do your own research and partake of prayerful meditation.

Personal Closing:

After nearly 12 years in Christian ministry I found myself outside the doors of the church for personal and spiritual reasons. It could be said I left the church but not the faith. This is to be a recorded journey of my quest to refind my First Love and to try to bring back to life some dry bones!

To be clear on something: I have no intention of revealing who I am, where I live, what I do for a living, why I left the ministry, if I ever decide to return to the ministry, or any of these type of personal questions regarding myself. Of course, some of you who might be more internet savvy could probably find out who I am; but I have decided to simply stay anonymous in my writings to the general public - for while the purpose of this is about my own walk, the ideas behind this are not about one man and his journey - it is my belief that this is a journey needed by millions of Christian believers around the world who have found themselves lost and drying up inside.

In closing, I invite you to read through Ezekiel Chapter 37 and ask the Holy Spirit to open your heart for a journey - to join together with me in the weeks and months ahead as I myself journey away from having dry faith to a hopefully finding a place of peace along-side a smooth and quiet river, hand-in-hand with our Creator and Saviour, the One who truly does bring forth life from dry bones!

Thank you for reading.
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